Nadal ready for Novak fight
January 02, 2012 15:30:40 UK
Rafael Nadal insists he can compete with world number one Novak Djokovic in 2012.Rafael Nadal is ready to take the fight to Novak Djokovic as the two tennis stars gear up for the Australian Open.
Nadal is 6.00 to take the top prize in Melbourne, while Djokovic can be backed at 2.25 to secure a second successive title Down Under.
The Spaniard lost both the Wimbledon and US Open finals to Djokovic in 2011, he also lost in the finals of four other tournaments at the hands of the Serb who replaced him as world number one.
However, Nadal is confident he can come out on top in 2012 and believes if he works hard enough he can reclaim the top spot in the world rankings.
"I think everybody thinks that Djokovic will be difficult to beat," said Nadal. "Not myself. You cannot be on top every time. I lost against Djokovic in all the finals, but I only [just] lost against him. That's a really positive thing. He did better than me and that's it.
"I don't know if I can beat him. The only thing that I know is I have to practice to improve my tennis, and that's what I going to try to do. For the rest of my career, I don't know if that's going to be enough to beat him or to lose him 100 more times. I cannot predict that.
"What I can predict is I going to work hard to try to be competitive enough to play with well against everybody, not only against him, because first thing - you have to be in finals. That's a very difficult thing to do."
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